Line Rider

This game is incredible. I can't wait for the DS version. Play it here.

more proof that I'm a man child

My new flying toy:

Mii in the cold.

Last month, there was a freak snow storm and I got a Wii.

Movies seen at the VIFF (by personal ranking)

1. Little Children
2. The Host
3. Paris, Je t'aime
4. The King and the Clown
5. The Fountain
6. Day Night Day Night
7. Slumming
8. The Queen
9. Beauty in Trouble
10. Jindabyne
11. Colour Me Kubirck
12. A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
13. Everything's Gone Green
14. Wide Awake
15. The Post-Modern Life of My Aunt
16. Milarepa
    
17. Expiration Date
    

In related news.....

Today, I spotted a person drinking Coke Blak which hasn't been available in Vancouver . It felt as if I had stumbled upon some sort of mythical creature.

Of Montreal sells out and does an Outback Steakouse commercial for a lifetime of free steaks and bloomin onions. So would I.

I just saw an Outback Steakhouse commercial featuring a rework of Of Montreal's "Wraith Pinned to the Mist (And Other Games)". "Let's pretend we don't exist. Lets pretend we're in Antarctica" is ever so subtly replaced by "Lets go to Outback tonight. Life will still be there tomorrow." It was one of most the most awkward moments in advertising ever. Whether or not being on an Outback Steakhouse spot boosts an artist's cool factor like being on The OC does remains to be seen.

Currently Listening
Woke Up New
Get Lonely
The Mountain Goats

Japanese Waffle Ice Cream Bar

This is wonderful. How I didn't discover it until now is beyond me.

My spoon is too big. I am a banana.

I'm sorry but we're out of the beef.

Airlinemeals.net is a really great site.

Antec P180

This is the literally the coolest case ever.

13 Tzameti

13 Tzameti is one great snooty, pretentious, award winning, noir, black/white, French film about Russian roulette.

Who do I think I am? Andy Rooney at the end of 60 Minutes?... well maybe.

Ever notice that customer reviews at online retail stores are almost always favorable to the item in question? A few weeks ago, I bought two spindles of 15 Fujifilm dual layer dvds on sale for 60% of the regular price. When I went about trying to burn them, my DVD drive spat the disks out saying that they were incompatible. I did a little Googling on the DVD-Rs in question and saw that multiple forums had noted that the discs were highly incompatible with the majority of dual layer dvd-/+r drives out there. As I am in Canada (where stores seem to have a bigger fetish with returns than sales), I had no trouble returning the discs so that's not where I'm going with this. Being the good Samaritan that I am, when I returned home from returning the said items I submit user comments for the product on Futureshop's site warning people of the media's low compatibility. It's been a month and my comments are still not posted.

I just did Futureshop customers another favor by submitting comments on an external hard drive that has been known to fail after several months of use. Whether my comment is added to Futureshop's collection of glowing reviews remains to be seen.

There's a pattern emerging here. Sales are often a way to get rid of bad products just like the daily special at your favorite restaurant is just a ploy to use ingredients that will soon expire. This is no brilliantly original epiphany on my part. It's just something we often overlook in our quest to find a good deal.

[sigh]

OMFG it's a pickle!

It's sad that I've been taking content off of boingboing so often, but this is good. As a child, I recall having a fear of plants (botanophobia). I was also terrified of Big Bird (of Sesame Street fame not large birds), but there's no word for that.

Best aerobics/kareoke/english lesson video ever!

..and you thought video games were expensive.

As much as I appreciate a finely crafted toy, the price tag on this is as astonishing as it is ridiculous. If this were on The Price is Right, I would be wrong.

I got a treadmill.

An unfinished painting.

I did this six years ago in high school. I graduated before I could finish it. When I get my own apartment again, I'll finish it and hang it up in the bathroom. If only I could find that tiny source photo that I cut out of an old National Geographic.

Geez. Good job ruining a good game hacker guy. With that attitude, you'll never have skills like this guy.